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Lapierre quickest in practice 2

Team France returned to the top of the timesheets in the second free practice session for this weekend's A1 Grand Prix championship finale in China

Times continued to tumble as grip increased on the very wide Shanghai track and Nicolas Lapierre lapped the 5.45km circuit more than half a second quicker than Salvador Duran's session-topping time from this morning.

Lapierre is sharing the car with teammate Alex Premat this weekend, and completed both practice sessions today. Premat will drive the car in tomorrow's free practice session and qualifying and will drive the Sprint race. Lapierre will take the car back for the Feature race.

"So far so good," said Lapierre. "It has been a difficult day and we've had to work hard to get the lap time, but tomorrow we will see how Alex gets on."

Lapierre's time was only fractionally quicker than the next best, which was taken by Darren Manning in his debut in the Team Great British car.

The Yorkshireman impressed in his first laps in the 550bhp A1 Grand Prix car, lapping only 0.107 seconds slower than the newly crowned champions.

Duran continued his impressive pace from the morning warm-up session with the third quickest time, ahead of Ryan Briscoe's Team Australia car.

Alex Yoong was fifth quickest ahead of Michael Devaney, in his third race of the season for the Irish team.

"We lost a bit of track time with the car in the garage in first practice, but we still managed to get quite a lot of work done and I know where I need to improve," Devaney said.

"It was hard to get a quick lap in the end because of my lack of confidence with the brakes, so it was not ideal. There's more to come tomorrow."

Pos  Driver                 Team            Time               Laps
 1.  Nicolas Lapierre       France          1:51.972            19
 2.  Darren Manning         Great Britain   1:52.079  + 0.107   19
 3.  Salvador Duran         Mexico          1:52.321  + 0.349   21
 4.  Ryan Briscoe           Australia       1:52.355  + 0.383   19
 5.  Alex Yoong             Malaysia        1:52.371  + 0.399   21
 6.  Michael Devaney        Ireland         1:52.376  + 0.404   19
 7.  Patrick Carpentier     Canada          1:52.388  + 0.416   22
 8.  Tengyi Jiang           China           1:52.436  + 0.464   23
 9.  Stephen Simpson        South Africa    1:52.477  + 0.505   16
10.  Ananda Mikola          Indonesia       1:52.701  + 0.729   20
11.  Matt Halliday          New Zealand     1:52.703  + 0.731   19
12.  Jos Verstappen         Netherlands     1:52.858  + 0.886   19
13.  Tomas Enge             Czech Republic  1:52.960  + 0.988   23
14.  Enrico Toccacelo       Italy           1:53.052  + 1.080   22
15.  Giorgio Mondini        Switzerland     1:53.066  + 1.094   19
16.  Adam Khan              Pakistan        1:53.200  + 1.228   16
17.  Cesar Campanico        Portugal        1:53.423  + 1.451   23
18.  Philip Giebler         Usa             1:53.564  + 1.592   20
19.  Mathias Lauda          Austria         1:53.918  + 1.946   24
20.  Graham Rahal           Lebanon         1:53.951  + 1.979   22
21.  Christian Fittipaldi   Brazil          1:54.073  + 2.101   15
22.  Sebastian Stahl        Germany         1:56.172  + 4.200   20

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